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This work by MartíÃ¢â‚¬â€¹n Ramírez is known as “Untitled (Train and Tunnels).” Ramírez used crayons and glued together pieces of paper to make his drawings. Credit: Courtesy Ricco/Maresca Gallery This story by Gisele Regatao originally […]

Melpomene via Shutterstock The most enduring cinematic representation of 9/11 was not originally meant to be about the World Trade Centre attacks at all. Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, released in 2002, was mostly shot […]

Mickey Rooney as Mr Yunioshi in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. Classic Film/Flickr, CC BY-SA Actor Ed Skrein’s much applauded withdrawl from the role of Asian character, Major Ben Daimio, in the Hellboy reboot has again […]

New technologies are taking books and libraries to places that are, as yet, unimaginable. Shutterstock There is a chapter towards the end of Stuart Kells’s The Library: A Catalogue of Wonders, in which the author envisions the […]

A photograph of Penn Station’s interior from the 1930s. Bernice Abbott In June 2017, New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced a US$1.6 billion project to transform New York City’s much-maligned Penn Station in hopes of restoring it to […]

President Calvin Coolidge meeting with a delegation of Native Americans at the White House. Library of Congress The US president, Donald Trump, spoke in June to a delegation of tribal leaders at the White […]